On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 02:56:33PM +0300, Joonas Niilola wrote: > Cross-posting to gentoo-dev and -project lists due to technical and > non-technical nature. Reply-to is set to -project. ... > 1st RFC: "Trusted contributor model" > > I'm proposing us to giving special commit access to our well-reputable > contributors (mostly proxied maintainers). They'd have access _only_ to > their maintained package in git-tree. To understand what I mean, check > git shortlog -s -n net-im/telegram-desktop-bin/ > git shortlog -s -n net-im/signal-desktop-bin/ Conceptually, yes, I think this is a good improvement. I'd like upstream to be included as well in this set, for upstreams that know their own package much better than us.
> On the technical side I'm not sure how to achieve this, but I know it > can be done. For example the sync-repos are compiled like this all the > time. If this proposal gains support, I'm willing to start figuring it > out more in-depth. Technically, I've got some implementation problems. We *can* write a simple gitolite ACL that limits scope to a directory or file, e.g. CAT/PN/ BUT, we can't write a simple gitolite ACL that limits the content within profiles/package.mask or other files in profiles/ (we can write hooks that might be able to do this, but that still requires the challenge of validation inside the file). I'd EXPECT a contributor to WANT to package.mask a cutting edge version so it has time to bake and get well-tested, but if they can't do both parts of the commit themselves, this process is likely problematic. > 2nd RFC: Recruiting proven contributors without a mentor > > I'm aware recruiters don't really need to ask a permission here, but I > believe it's great to gauge the general feelings about this beforehand. > What would you say if recruiters started more actively approaching > potential developers? ... > But seeing the general lack of interest towards mentoring, maybe this is > something we _need_ to do in near future. Yes, let's make it possible to join by the quiz, and the recruiting only, mentors can be optional. But in parallel: It's been ~7 years since I last mentored somebody, mostly for reasons of time with having young kids. How do we make the mentorship process more lightweight? (and possibly the quiz process, I haven't seen how the quiz has changed since I last mentored) Let's start with a potential intersection of your two ideas: (these numbers are arbitrary, but try to reflect what I see some of the trusted contributors doing) - 9 good submissions (patches or PRs) over a 3 month period [must be at least 3/month] - will get you an invite from recruiters to join - either without a mentor, or a lightweight mentor -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 GnuPG FP : 7D0B3CEB E9B85B1F 825BCECF EE05E6F6 A48F6136
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